TRIBUTE TO DRUGS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 2

TRIBUTE TO DRUGS

MR CHURCHILL'S MESSAGE In a special message issued irom Downing Street at the end of December, Mr Churchill gave a lively description of his illness and recovery. “I had planned to visit the Italian front as soon as the Teheran conference was over,” he said, "but on 11th December I felt so tired that I had to ask General Eisenhower for a few days’ rest. “The next day came fever, and the day after photographs showed a shadow on one of my lungs “Excellent nurses and the highest medical authorities in the Mediterranean arrived from all quarters as if by magic. "This excellent M. and B. (May and Baker sulpha compounds) from which I did not suffer any inconvenience, was used at the earliest moment, and after a week’s fever the intruders were repulsed. 'I thought some ol those who have been so kind as to inquire or express ihemselves in friendly terms about me would like to have this personal note from me, which they will please take conveying my sincere thanks. I feel a good deal better than at any time since leaving England, though, of course, a few weeks in the sunshine are needed to rp.stnrp my ohysical strength "M. and 8., v\mch i may also call Moran and Bedford (Lord Moran, Mr Churchill’s personal physician. ’ and Brigadier D E Bedford, Consultant Physician to the Middle East Forces) did the work most effectively. There is no doubt that pneumonia is a very different illness irom what it was before this marvellous drug was discovered. “I did not at any time have to relinquish my part in the direction of affairs. and there has not been the slightest delay in giving decisions required from me lam now able to transact my business fully “I have a highly efficient nucleus of a staff and am in full daily correspondence with London. “I will be resting for a few weeks, but I will not be idle provided, of course, we don’t have setbacks.”